object of a preposition

1. 1.

   the object governed by a preposition

   Synonymsprepositional object

   Broaderobject

Questions about object of a preposition

What does object of a preposition mean?

object of a preposition means "the object governed by a preposition".

What is another word for object of a preposition?

Close synonyms include prepositional object. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is object of a preposition a common word?

object of a preposition is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.